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RE: Quotes-Plus & Quote.COM



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No, you just get ASCII format data that you have to manipulate yourself.  No
prices are ever error corrected.  What you download is what you get.  There
selection of symbols is certainly huge though....

Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daniel Martinez
> Sent: Sunday, November 08, 1998 5:34 AM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; A.J. Maas
> Subject: Quotes-Plus & Quote.COM
>
>
> AJ,
> the last time I called Quote.COM, their end-of-day downloads
> didn't deal with ticker changes or
> stock splits well at all.  Has this changed?  Do they have a
> setup similar to Quotes-Plus where a
> database is automatically maintained and is accessible by MetaStock?
>
> Daniel.
>
>
>
> A.J. Maas wrote:
>
> > If anyone should have the correct OHLC for the Dow it is to be
> the CBOE, being
> >  licensed by the Dow Jones Co. to maintain a derivative market
> based on the
> >  'daily' Dow's Averages mimute by minute market pricings.
> >
> > Open High and Low quotes are just or I must even more important
> data values then Close
> > only is. The Charts Price Indicator's Bars are extreemly
> important for both Trading strategies
> > as Technical Analysing. In TA one of the important ways to
> discover Support & Resitance
> > levels is to do the Trend-Channeling on daily,weekly AND
> monthly etc. price charts. For this
> > ofcourse the Price Bars are the Indicators Type to be used.
> > Only just recently the Dow-InduAve have made a severe classical
> bottom on a long term
> > trends rising supportline, only clearly visable on a weekly Bar Chart.
> >
> > Equis' Java data is thus the TRUE correct data.
> >  Yahoo and QP2 data are the REAL Quote Monsters, appropiate
> name for blowing this
> > intra-daily clearly too far out of proportion. If Index
> calculation is not done properly, and
> > Yahoo's and QP2 is definitly NOT, then 99% of MS's indicators
> and as such their
> > readings are off as well.
> >
> > Well, so much for CURRENT CHEAP - BUT IN THE END - DEAR data.
> > Just dump them.
> >  Quote.com only charges U$ 9.95/monthly and their data is
> somewhat 98% OK.
> > http://www.quote.com
>